I suspect the same would happen with glibc. To be fair, the maintainers for these packages have a lot on their plates, and tend to pay more attention to submitters who they see often, so one-shots like these just don't bubble up to the top.
Speaking as someone who exploits programs for fun...that would not be a good idea at all. Not aborting in the face of _obvious_ memory corruption means continuing onwards with the memory in some weird state which could cause much more serious problems later on. And, it makes an attacker’s job a lot easier if they don’t have to worry about triggering malloc’s checks while gradually corrupting your heap and taking control of the program through a memory error.
